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...proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused, but also the judges, prosecutor and the PA security men summarily appointed as 'lawyers' are all, in fact prisoners of the Israelis, right now. The Economist quotes a Fatah member saying that in the wake of the Israeli offensive, the PA itself is something of an illusion...
...Even in the unlikely event that Arafat chose to retire, the menu of likely successors, if chosen democratically, is hardly palatable to Washington. The most popular current Palestinian leaders, after Arafat, are Marwan Barghouti, the West Bank Fatah chief currently in an Israeli prison for his role in directing the Tanzim militias in this intifada, and Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the blind spiritual leader of Hamas. The moderate negotiators from Arafat's inner circle such as Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) and Ahmed Qurei (a.k.a. Abu Ala) are aging and in ill health, and their intimate involvement in the failed Oslo...
MIDDLE EAST Israel Seizes Territory after Fresh Attacks In two separate attacks in Jerusalem, Palestinian suicide bombers killed 26 Israelis and injured 124 others. The radical group Hamas claimed responsibility for the first; the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, claimed the second. The Palestinian Authority denounced the attacks and, after the second, Arafat issued an appeal for suicide bombing to stop. The Israeli government announced that it would seize parts of Palestinian Authority territory and hold them as long as attacks continue. Dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships...
...Hamas and the grassroots militants of Fatah don't want to see movement toward a provisional Palestinian state any more than Sharon does, and the bombing campaign was clearly timed to coincide with a much-anticipated policy speech by President Bush, purported to include a call for a provisional Palestinian state whose final borders would be negotiated later...
...warned that the alternative was to commit whole army divisions to the West Bank on a permanent basis. But the new policy of taking and holding PA territory may now require just that, although it's unlikely to discourage violence against Israelis. Hamas and even the grassroots militants of Fatah oppose new negotiations with Israel and see the path of confrontation as bringing more rewards than negotiation. Many of those Palestinians advocating armed struggle will see the permanent return of Israeli forces to PA territory as sealing their case against engaging in U.S.-brokered peace efforts. And both the Islamists...